[U-Boot] Issue with running commands

[Sughosh Ganu <urwithsughosh@gmail.com>]

hi Graeme,
On Wed Jul 04, 2012 at 09:28:07AM +1000, Graeme Russ wrote:

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> >> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Sughosh Ganu <urwithsughosh@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > hi,
> >> > While testing on hawkboard with the latest commit, i hit an issue of
> >> > commands not being accepted.
> >> >
> >> > hawkboard > rese
> >> > Unknown command '?????' - try 'help'
> >> > hawkboard >
> >> >
> >> > Running git bisect showed that this is caused due to commit 054ea170f271:
> >> > cmd_mem: cmp: unify size code paths. Has anyone seen this issue -- i
> >> don't
> >> > think this is board/arch specific.
> >>
> >> I tried to reproduce this on the calimain board (AM1808 SoC), but
> >> without success. The reset command works fine with current mainline
> >> u-boot.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for testing this. This looks to be some kind of an alignment issue
> > on my board, which is getting introduced due to the commit i mentioned. The
> > said commit is not directly responsible for the problem, but it introduces
> > some kind of misalignment. I am looking into this -- at such times i so
> > dearly wish i had a jtag debugger :)
> 
> I may be totally off track, but I saw a patch recently 'arm: armv7:
> add compile option -mno-unaligned-access if available' - I wonder if
> its related

  The SoC on my board uses a armv5 based core(arm926ejs), so this
  patch won't apply for my board.

-sughosh